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" There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts, Not such as Europe breeds in her decay, Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did... "
National Series of Selections for Reading; Adapted to the Standing of the ... - Página 264
por Richard Green Parker - 1852
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First Impressions of England and Its People

Hugh Miller - 1847 - 454 páginas
...many hundred square leagues do for the United States ? " Westward the course of empire takes its waj; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close...drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last!" And now, stripping off the dark coal measures like a pall, we expose the chocolate-coloured...
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A Eulogy on the Life and Character of John Quincy Adams: Delivered at the ...

Edward Everett - 1848 - 586 páginas
...Arts ; The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts." " Westward the course of Empire takes its way ; The four first acts...drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." And, at a more recent period, but, still, when there was nothing to be seen in this vast North...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volumen3

1849 - 448 páginas
...of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she...drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. Westward Dr. Berkley's muse takes her flight ; how many thousands of Europe's children have since...
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Déliberations Et Mémoires de la Société Royale Du Canada

Royal Society of Canada - 1883 - 792 páginas
...of empire and of arts ; The good and groat inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay : Such as she...flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall lie sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall...
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Millenarianism and Messianism in English Literature and Thought, 1650-1800 ...

Richard Henry Popkin - 1988 - 234 páginas
...A Prophecy." In the 1726 form in which it was sent to Percival, the last stanza reads: Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way; The four first Acts...Drama with the Day; Time's noblest Offspring is the last. When published in Berkeley's Miscellany ( 1752) the last line is amended to read: "The world's...
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Imperialism and the Anti-Imperialist Mind

Lewis Samuel Feuer - 1989 - 276 páginas
.... Not such as Europe breeds in her decay, Such as she bred when fresh and young . . . Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way, The four first Acts...past, A fifth shall close the Drama with the Day, The world's great Effort is the last.39 Soon afterward, in 1728, Berkeley set out for the New World...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...GEORGE BERKELEY (1685-1753) On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America 1 Westward the e or dimly seen In these thy lowest works, yet these...and power divine: Speak ye who best can tell, ye so last. (1. 21-24) AiP; FaFP; NOEC; OBTV; SeCePo; TrGrPo WENDELL BERRY (b. 1934) The Peace of Wild Things...
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History of the Idea of Progress

Robert A. Nisbet - 392 páginas
...European precedent: in what may be Bishop Berkeley's most famous lines, he wrote in 1726: Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts...Drama with the Day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. Timothy Dwight, one of the "Connecticut Wits," added to Berkeley in 1794 the following lines...
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,: Volume 29 1875

New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1995 - 542 páginas
...of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay, Such as she...drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last." Minds thus certain of their rights, proud of their history, and constitutionally hopeful of...
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Light from Heaven

Richard Sibbes - 1995 - 376 páginas
...better known but niuch later, and admittedly grander, vaticination of Berkeley : — ' Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts...drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. The ' Priest ' of Bemerton, George Herbert, may have had his equally memorable couplet suggested...
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